10-07-2014, 01:49 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:Oh, the irony. Or is it hypocrisy? Or, will this story, once and forever, be the textbook example of why a democracy needs a First Amendment INDEPENDENT press?
From news 5/6/14:
"Media Matters chairman David Brock is urging top CBS News executives to reopen the network's internal investigation over its discredited "60 Minutes" report on the Benghazi attack."
(You might remember the story as the one where a guy pretended to have been there and then later it turned out that he told the FBI he wasn't there.)
"Re-opening the investigation is warranted as it now appears that CBS' internal investigation was not thorough, was wrong on critical points, and omitted key facts -- facts that would have revealed that Logan's report was tainted by partisanship and unprofessional conduct," Brock wrote.
Lara Logan, the network's chief foreign correspondent, and Max McClellan, her producer, went on leave following the network's internal review and have not returned. A New York magazine report, published Sunday night, has renewed interest in the network controversy and provided new details about how the erroneous Oct. 27 story -- which featured a discredited "eyewitness" and several unsourced claims about the September 2012 attack that killed four Americans -- ever made it on air.
Brock, a right-wing Clinton antagonist in the 1990s, turned left and went on to found Media Matters and super PAC American Bridge. He recently started Correct the Record, a new initiative to defend Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State at the time of the Benghazi attack. In October, Brock wrote "The Benghazi Hoax," an e-book examining how Republicans and conservative media have promoted what he considers a "phony scandal."
I loved his book "Blinded By the Right". But I also find it hard to believe that a person can make such radical changes in his or her belief system. I loved especially what he wrote about that alien entity Ann Coulter. (That she lives on wine and cigs.).
Dawn